Programme and Project Management by Ed Johnston

Camelot

Ed was brought in to get the Infrastructure
for the new Camelot Interactive web site into a production ready
state, achieving the highest standards of security,
documentation, change control and configuration management. His
was responsible for a team of 15 technicians covering AIX and
Solaris systems, DB2, Websphere and HTTP server, IBM hardware
including 690 multiple logical partition machines, network
equipment from three Firewall vendors, Content Switches, Attack
Mitigators and many support devices, all configured to have no
single point of failure.

He re-organised and focused the
Infrastructure Team on clearly defined objectives and re-planned
the project to achieve demanding delivery dates. Change control
and configuration management were gradually and steadily
tightened to ensure flexibility in getting things done while
ensuring good work was not spoiled by poor controls. Exacting
security standards were met in all sections of Networking
Operating System, Database and Application Deployment.

After successful launch, Ed moved on to
implement significant expansion of Test and Development
environments and launch of Interactive TV and SMS sales
channels, then EPOS integration with Tesco.